“Congress shouldn’t be a spectator,” says Senator Josh Hawley.
By Catholics for Catholics
The effects of an abortive drug are so prevalent, that a U.S. Senator said Congress must step in to curb the rising rates of abortions.
According to The Daily Wire, Senator Josh Hawley said after having a closed-door hearing this week with Marty Makary, the Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, that Congress must act against rising abortion numbers largely fueled by the abortion drug mifepristone.
Senators on the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pension (HELP) Committee and Hawley, met with Makary on Tuesday for a private briefing on mifepristone. The briefing focused on the FDA’s handling of mifepristone and an ongoing study of the drug’s safety.
Makary and Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. committed to conducting the study last year. Still, Republican lawmakers have grown exasperated.
“I think we’re at a dead end on this process with the safety review. I just don’t think it’s going anywhere, and I think the fact that 70% of abortions in this country now are done with the chemical abortion drug, there are more abortions in America now than there were when Roe was still the law of the land just a few years ago,” Hawley told The Daily Wire. “We have a serious, serious crisis around the chemical abortion drug, and we’ve got to do something about it.”
The Wire reported that facts released in December by the pro-abortion Society of Family Planning showed that the number of monthly abortions kept surging in 2025 from 2024, which was itself an increase from 2023. Many of the pills have shipped through the mail to states where medication abortions are technically illegal.
Hawley said there was no “sense of urgency” to take any action on behalf of the FDA. He added that he has not heard back from the FDA on any of the letters sent on the abortion pill and said he didn’t receive any new information on Wednesday.
“I think this study is just a dead end,” he said. “I think Congress needs to act.”
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